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The significance of silence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Nicholas Rescher
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Abstract

Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech. Martin Farquhar Tupper

Silence can express nothing or be meaningful. It is meaningful only in a communicative setting and, in an environment of words, silence is often the instrument of choice to communicate without explicit expression. After the last word, ‘the rest is silence’.

Type
Mini-Focus: Postmodernism
Information
European Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 91 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1998

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